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title: So they proceeded to the place where was the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they proceeded to the place where was the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, to inquire of him concerning Mabon. Who acts: animals. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 121

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So they proceeded to the place where was the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, to inquire of him concerning Mabon.

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** proceed, be, inquire, concern · **To what, where:** Owl

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:17:121
# text = So they proceeded to the place where was the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, to inquire of him concerning Mabon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Cwm	Cwm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Cawlwyd	Cawlwyd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	case	_	_
20	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | to the place | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the Owl |  |  |  | of Cwm | tree rules |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Cwm; concern Mabon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient |
| 4 | **concern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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